| pbroy said: When electronic stores got rid of the dedicated space for UMD Movies, UMD became a failure. It wasn't a smart move to sell UMD movies which was obviously of lower quality and cost more. Edit: When CS became possible on PSP, UMDs became obsolete to many. |
So without distributing movies on UMD, UMD would have been a success, but not now?
I can see you are no businessman. The PSP is powerful and featurefull enough to include a movie codec, IMO it made sense for Sony to tap this potential. It probably helped lower UMD mass production costs and provided a few extra bucks for Sony and additional options to users.
UMD as a movie format has been more successful than I expected. Many years before the PSP launched I already watched movies in the train using my laptop, higher quality and much bigger screen, I think Sony knew such things as well. 
